Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, XX. the Old Man's Troubles, sentence 11
"Col'!" exclaimed Uncle Remus; "hit got pas' col' on der quarter stretch.
Who acts: Col · What happens: exclaim, hit, get · To what, where: Uncle, got pas, der quarter stretch · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, XX. the Old Man's Troubles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Col), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Col | punct |
| 2 | Col | col | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Col | punct |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Col | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Col | punct |
| 6 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 exclaimed | obj |
| 8 | Remus | Remus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Uncle | flat |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 hit | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 hit | punct |
| 11 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 pas | compound |
| 13 | pas | pa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hit | obj |
| 14 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 13 pas | case |
| 15 | col | col | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hit | obj |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 col | punct |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 stretch | case |
| 18 | der | d | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 stretch | amod |
| 19 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stretch | compound |
| 20 | stretch | stretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hit | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | Col | Uncle | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hit in a quote | past | got pas | der quarter stretch | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent pa=Patient col=Result | ||||
| 3 | get in a quote | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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